Disability Awareness Starts Here (DASH)

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Present: Pat Teal, Bonnie Bolster, Marion Huxtable

Acceptance of Minutes

The minutes of the March meeting were not approved due to lack of a quorum.

Public Access

Regarding Sheridan sidewalk improvements, Marion spoke with Sarah Bowman who had attended a meeting with the city last week. A charrette is being scheduled soon to plan for an extended project including Sheridan from Sims to 19th and 19th between the Grant Street School and Mountain View. The city now has a grant writer and will need to apply for grants. Sarah and Kirby can offer some assistance with this. Construction on Sheridan near the Hospital is scheduled for 2013.

Lynn has written to the hospital regarding the lack of accessible parking spaces. If we do not get a reply by our next meting we need to consider what action to take.

When we met with the hospital staff, we were told that the hospital is to start a site renewal plan and would like a DASH rep to sit in on this. Tony is the Hospital Board rep for this and was to going to coordinate this through Lynn. We need to follow up on this.

Treasury/Fundraising

Treasury. Discussion of major expenses targeted the phone bill of almost 400 dollars a year. We need to decide if we need the phone or if a Board member could receive phone calls on a home phone - preferably with 2 message centers. Depends on how many phone calls we get. If not many we prefer to give up the dedicated phone since it takes too much of our limited funds. Current accounts: 826.41 in regular account, 33.69 in Emergency account

Fund-raising. We need to find out if Rotary will help with brochure costs. If not, suggest First Federal and also a fund-raising letter directed to entertainment venues. Marion will draft letter to fund- raising venues based on our 2011 fund-raising letter but specifically mentioning the entertainment brochure. We need to get the fundraising letter out before the brochure is printed. Checks were signed for Lynn's check endorsing stamp and for phone bill.

Other Business

Entertainment venues evaluations Pat has a few art galleries to do in town and a few out of town in Quilcene, Port Ludlow and Hadlock. Marion has done uptown venues and will do downtown on Thursday with Ann Robertson. Marion will then complete the venues at the Fort, followed by out of town venues in Chimacum and Port Ludlow. We will attempt to do all this by early May. We will have a separate category of libraries and museums. We will send completed evaluations to Bonnie as they are done so she can get a head start on the brochure. We want to get the brochure printed in mid to end of may to distribute beginning of June.

Port Townsend Athletic Club

Marion and Pat visited the work in progress of the new accessible area of the Club. We discussed all the issues that DASH had suggested with owner Theresa Hoffman. We will continue to consult with her as the work progresses. One area of the Club will be accessible, including restroom. We do not know yet what kind of equipment might be there aside from weights but will stay in touch with Theresa about it.

Next meeting: Tuesday, May 1 from Noon to 2:00 in the Uptown Community Center.